Human writing originated in sumi, an ancient civilization in Mesopotamia 5, 000 years ago, and they invented the world's most difficult cuneiform writing. But how do you write without paper in those days? The sumerians were clever enough to use clay tablets as writing tools
Writing is a necessary condition of paper. Looking back over two thousand years, the early history of paper, before it became a vehicle for writing, seems like a prelude to a much older and larger story.
Chinese wrapping paper made of linen as the main material has survived since the end of the second century BC. And when an ancient map dating back to the early second century BC was unearthed at fangma tan, 320 kilometers from the ancient Chinese capital of chang 'an (today called xi 'an), it revealed the new role of paper.
There are several other examples of writing on paper that date back to the late first century BC, but these are relatively few and almost all of them are fragments.
Marco Polo recorded that long before paper was tried and tried as a writing surface, the Chinese used it as kites (kites were then called "paper kites") to send military signals, as window paper and for decoration.
Without writing the function, the achievements of the paper, though less bright, but can also have a fairly fruitful results, however, when we review paper the initial use of the staggered start we like in nabokov in front of the desk, in front of a blank page, that hidden beneath the paper text, eventually to paper, being seen.
Writing, therefore, is part of the "prehistory" of paper, which is the background to one of the roles of paper that will transform the world. Writing, on the other hand, is one of the strangest and most ingenious of all human inventions, because it preserves the most fleeting thing of all: speech.
After all, words are the way people package their ideas and experiences with each other. As a communication tool, discourse is naturally defective. The writer Gustave Flaubert wrote that people's words are "like the broken gongs that a busker beats at a monkey show. How can they hope to touch the stars in the sky?"
But this slow and flawed tool is still the most universal form of communication we have; Language is still the currency of communication. It rescues our thoughts and experiences from the river of history and keeps them alive for a short time.
But the great defect of words is not that they are imprecise, but that they must die. Words usually die the moment we say them. Some words last for decades, while others carry on for generations.
But even so, these words changed in form when they were spoken by men to women, and when women told men. With no way to check, this process of oral history is clearly a game.
Five thousand years ago, however, things changed subtly: language began to take physical forms, sometimes scrawled, sometimes engraved. Suddenly, even if no one remembers them, these words may last for years, decades, or even centuries.
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